- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s onwards
Growing up in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, with their mother dead and their stepfather an ever-present threat, Bertie Fischer and her older sister Mabel have no one but each other—with perhaps a sweetheart for Bertie waiting in the wings. But...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Progressive Era
From bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row. 1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue,...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Glass Ferry, Kentucky, is bourbon country. Whiskey has been a way of life for generations, enabling families to provide and survive even in the darkest times. Flannery Butler’s daddy, Beauregard “Honey Bee” Butler, was known for making some of...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late Victorian (late 1900s)
Adolescent baker’s boy Jack catches sight of a beautiful woman alighting from a train at dusk. His remote Norfolk village is built around a railway maintenance hub known as The Works which is ruled by ritual, hierarchy and God....
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Weekand co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2011 / 2020s
(A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller Book 2) Six lies killed Huw Jones. On New Year’s Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs. His body was later discovered on the nearby...
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
The “Skeleton Coast”, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean in south-western Africa, is named after the bleached bones and shipwrecks that lie on its shores. This is Benedict Allen’s account of his thousand-mile trek with camels through...
- Location(s): French Alps
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT… Four friends go to the Alps on a boys’ skiing holiday. But their trip is cut short when one of them falls to his death. Zoe travels to France with Ivy to collect Tom’s body. While...
The Skipping Verger and Other Tales
- Location(s): The Canary Islands (Las Islas Canarias)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 19th-20th centuries
The Skipping Verger and Other Tales is a collection of delightful short stories set on the island of Tenerife between the late 19th and early 21st centuries. In an engaging and unique style, John Reid Young’s stories range from...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1927 /2020
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and...
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